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With its rich history, Eskişehir has become a well-known European city in Anatolia, whose cultural richness encompasses both the past and the present. Excavations carriet out in Şarhöyük, thought to be the first area of settlement in the city, prove that...

History runs deep throughout the entirety of Turkey, but you’ll find each of the places described below in the Black Sea region, a strip of territory running across the north of the country from the outskirts of Istanbul all the way to the Georgian border...

EDITOR'S NOTE: In the fall of 2015, Matador sent a team from The Buried Life to explore Istanbul and Turkey’s Black Sea region. What they found was a part of the world that Western travelers don’t often think about…and why that’s such a shame. Here are so...

1. Kebab Kebap, the cornerstone of modern Turkish cuisine, simply means “charcoal-grilled” and includes dishes as disparate as kestane kebap — roasted chestnuts sold in paper bags by street vendors on winter days. The better-known meat dishes come in diff...

The story of Turkey goes back much, much further than you may be aware. This is the land that gave rise to the earliest known human cities. This is the land of mighty empires: Hittite, Lycian, Roman, Ottoman. This is the land of Troy, of the epic war and ...

History in Turkey runs deep. We're talking incredible UNESCO World Heritage Sites, well-preserved ruins and art from pretty much every major civilization in the Ancient World — even the origins of civilization itself are rooted in Turkey. But that doesn’t...

1. Saying goodbye can be an hour-long affair. "It's up to the guest when they arrive, but it's up to the host when they leave." In a culture where hosting guests is a great honour, your host doesn’t let you out of the house that easily. On an evening visi...

1. It has one of the world’s oldest and biggest malls. Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar, or Kapalı Çarşı, dates to 1455 and was established shortly after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. Over the centuries it has grown into a warren of 61 streets lined by m...

1. Our city is legendary. If our city walls could talk, they’d recite hundreds of legends involving mythological gods, prophecies fulfilled, and tales of love lost and betrayal that make our city so enchanting. The Bosphorus itself — the strait between As...

First in Europe Natural springs have been resources to prevent and treat diseases, reduce stress and improve the quality of life since the antiquity. Today thermal waters are applied throughout treatment procedures at clinics and for preventive care, also...